all the books i read in october and november and what i thought of them
All the books I read in October and November and what I thought of them I would apologize to my readership (for obvious reasons), but I'm not actually sorry. The readers of my blog have not experienced a semester during which they had to write four papers in two weeks on two separate occasions. This may be why I have forgotten how to read. Nevertheless, I am still going to smash my Goodreads reading challenge. ✨✨✨ Bakkhai by Euripides rating⁚ ⭐⭐⭐⭐ I really enjoy Greek tragedy because, for the first time in my life, ancient Greeks seem to me to have feelings. It was not actually obvious to me before my classical mythology professor made us read Greek tragedy that ancient Greeks love their parents and their kids. You might say, but Clara, she rips her son to pieces; how is it obvious that she cares about him? You can tell Euripides loves his kids because he writes a tragedy where the sad part is a mom going crazy and ripping apart her kids. This entire paragraph notwithstanding, in...